Parthiv Patel to lead team for Emerging Players tourney

MUMBAI: Wicket keeper batsman Parthiv Patel would lead a 15-member Indian squad at the Emerging Players Tournament to be played at Brisbane in Australia from August 8-20. Cheteshwar Pujara, who led India A recently in England, was named as Patel's deputy by the senior national selection committee that met today at Chennai to pick the squad, a media release from Cricket Board secretary N Srinivasan said on Tuesday. New Zealand, South Africa and the hosts outfit would take part inthe tournament consisting of T20 and 50-over ties, as per the schedule releasedalong with the team. Parthiv Patel (Capt), Cheteshwar Pujara (V-Capt), ShikharDhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Sourav Tiwary, Kedar Jadhav, Naman Ojha, Abhinav Mukund,Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, R Vinay Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jaskaran Singh,Piyush Chawla and R Ashwin.